Phylicia Moore--Keeping her "ALIVE" on the Internet

With no mainstream media headlines, yet gaining strength on
the internet is the horrifying story of an 18-year old New
Jersey girl named Phylicia Moore.  You won’t see her story on Greta Van
Susteren, Nancy Grace or hear about her through any of the mass media pundits
on other various news shows. 
Why? 
Some say it is because Phylicia was a black girl and deemed
not “newsworthy”.  The infamous “Missing
White Woman Syndrome” term keeps popping up. 
Some say it is because she isn’t a missing person and therefore the case
isn’t active. Some with no heart just say it’s irrelevant to the news and to
them.
Face it.  It’s NEWS.  A beautiful young woman with a promising
future was stymied in the prime of her life while doing good deeds.  Her mother, Lola Moore stated, “She was
stolen from us.  That’s the way we feel,
like she was stolen from us.” 
I don’t see this story in color.  I see the story as a probable murder and an
immediate and incompetent police investigation.  I see the story as a family torn apart as
their daughter just graduates from high school and heads to Ghana, Africa on a
school trip for a goodwill tour to help children with AIDS.  I see the story as a mystery as Phylicia
leaves the pool area of her hotel at 10:30 p.m.,
apparently heading for her room, only to be found 11 hours later face down in
the pool with her clothes on and no shoes. 
Her swimsuit was still on underneath her clothing.  Did she ever make it to her room?
The Moore family
has so many questions that have not been answered.  The Ghanaian officials never formally
interviewed her fellow students or the chaperones before the group continued
its tour.  Moore’s father stated, “I feel
it’s important that in order to solve this, everybody should be interviewed,
not just a few people…that goes for the people connected to the hotel, any
visitors, all the students and chaperones. 
Then they will most likely get a handle on what happened to my
daughter.  But to just let it go for a
month like this, that’s no good.” 
Let’s remember it has been almost two months now.
The police found no evidence of foul play, however, the
medical examiners never completed a toxicology test!  The Moore family
had an independent autopsy done in the United
States and found that Phylicia was not in
the water for very long before she was found.
Evidently there are two different scenarios and stories
going on…and they don’t jive.  Bring in
the FBI!  But wait!  Under international law, the FBI can’t
formally get involved until it receives an “ok” from the Ghanaian
government. 
The family and FBI never got that “ok”…until NOW.  With the help of New Jersey Representative
Steve Rothman, the U.S.
ambassador to Ghana
told the Moore family that an FBI
legal attaché assigned to Lagos, Nigeria
will travel to Ghana
to work alongside with the task force formed by the Ghanaian government to
solve the mystery of Phylicia’s death this week.
Is ANYONE safe traveling outside the United
States anymore?  Will the Moore
family receive the answers they deserve or will they be tossed aside like other
Americans murdered abroad?
Only time will tell…Is Phylicia Moore’s
death important?  Maybe not to some, but
a lot to many, many others.  She deserves
justice so her family can be at peace and so she may REST IN PEACE.